Honestly, Musk kind of reminds me of turn of the century industrialists (Ford, Edison, etc). No formalized business training, no PR teams, no market analysis.

Honestly, Musk kind of reminds me of turn of the century industrialists (Ford, Edison, etc). No formalized business training, no PR teams, no market analysis. They just had super brash (and often foolhardy) visions of what consumers would buy, took huge risks in bringing them to market, and brought in investors by charisma alone. And I think you have to be born with the exact level of EQ to be smart enough to know what's possible and what customers would want, but be dumb enough to still throw yourself into the problem and ignore every reason previous attempts had been unsuccessful.